In a conversation with phree, he offered this quotation:
- Every man, every woman is a place, a land that one fails to discover or that fails to be fully discovered. -- Paola Zaccaria
There's so much that I like in your verses, but these that I'm quoting have enraptured me! Thank you, and thank you lil for bringing this to my attention. I've been so buried in my own readings and writing that I would have definitely missed it.In your eyes I saw myself, reflected, bent. You
and I in that moment, in some city I was only visiting,
together and yet years and years apart, I alone
in your arms and you alone in mine.
Double posting to add this little gem I ran into earlier: "“At each moment, we are made up of lines which are variable at each instant, which may be combined in different ways, packets of lines, longitudes and latitudes, tropics and meridians, etc. There are no mono-fluxes. The analysis of the unconscious should be a geog- raphy rather than history.” - Gilles Deleuze
The analysis of the unconscious should be a geography rather than history.”
a wonderful thing in poetry is to take the imagery of one domain, say geography or physics, and apply it to another domain. I wrote a poem once after reading about quantum physics and the notion that light is both particles and rays... but when while you can measure the speed of the rays, you cannot measure their mass. While measuring the mass of the particles, you cannot measure the speed -- I might have this wrong... it resulted in a poem for my then baby daughter which ended in the hope that the play of light against the hard face of reality offered both the particles and the rays to make it to the next cup of coffee. ... phree, my book is on its way to you.
Thanks for reading! I liked this prompt. I'm pretty new to hubski, but so far I'm really liking the user base and the content. I'm really glad that you and phree are doing this. Edit: Also, thanks to whomever gave me the badge. I don't really understand the badge system though, to be honest.
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Every Man, Every Woman is a Place, a Land that One Fails to Discover 1. You dug the oyster from the beach at Qualicum not worried about months with "r" or without "r" no thought about paralytic shellfish poisoning you lifted the shell to your lips and, in one swift move, slurped it down, oyster juice running down your chin but you were not a pearl and not a world I could discover.
What qualifies as I? Who experiences your existence?
You can feel hot and cold, that's freezing or will scold
But can you locate the I that is you, your consciousness?
Divert you gaze inwards, become aware of yourself
Not your thoughts, senstations or personal relations
But the entity within, receiving these stimuli.
Through lack of this ability we find the 'I' is a nihility,
Every man, every woman is a place.
A location bound by our senses and experiences.
We fail to discover ourselves, let alone each other
There's no core I, that makes us who we are
Our individuality is our separate perceptions
This isn't a negative, just a fresh perspective
Whilst we define our existence, it also defines us
Appended to one until it is ended.
I'm excited to see where this takes everyone. lil and I have been coming up with ideas about how to foster creative writing on hubski for the better part of a week now. It's something important to both of us and a challenge we think hubskiers will embrace. I won't be participating in this one, but am happy to offer encouragement, advice, suggestions, or feedback and critiques from the perspective of someone who teaches creative writing classes and has taken more than a few of them before.
It could even be a collaborative poem along the lines of thenewgreen's collaborative story a little while ago.
Give the snowball a push, I'm sure others will join in. I will.